Restacked on Substack:
America once promoted its ‘melting pot’ of well integrated Americans, drawn from across the world. Now we have the “Big Beautiful Bill” which heralds a windfall for ICE (not the UK’s Institute of Civil Engineers, but America’s masked gangs of Immigration and Customs Enforcement). They will be able to increase their numbers and detention centres. Naturally, this raises concerns for people. Especially exiled Russians:
Hiring 10,000 new officers, as the OBBBA envisions, would put the ratio of ICE agents to undocumented migrants at around 1:400. That’s within striking distance of the Stasi’s one secret policeman to every 166 East Germans and far ahead of the Gestapo’s 1:2,000.
From Substack:
Putin has Rosgvardiya. Trump has ICE.
Jul 8
No doubt, as the overt entertainment of opening new facilities grows to the thrill of psychopaths and the horror of balanced minds, the list will grow over the next few months.
Topping the bill just now is southern Florida’s “Alligator Alcatraz’ following the previously publicized El Salvador CECOT (Terrorism Confinement Centre) prison complex (see earlier blog).
Videos and photos posted on social media give a glimpse into the new facility, which is mostly composed of tents and trailers and is located at the Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport, surrounded by wetlands that are home to gators, pythons and other wildlife.
Inside the detention center are rows of two-tier bunk beds inside large cells that are surrounded by chain-link fencing.
Receiving staff at the centres are knowingly untrained and unable to carry out even the simplest First Aid if necessary:
A WIRED investigation into 911 calls from 10 of the nation’s largest immigration detention centers found that serious medical incidents are rising at many of the sites. The data, obtained through public records requests, show that at least 60 percent of the centers analyzed had reported serious pregnancy complications, suicide attempts, or sexual assault allegations. Since January, these 10 facilities have collectively placed nearly 400 emergency calls. Nearly 50 of those have involved potential cardiac episodes, 26 referenced seizures, and 17 reported head injuries. Seven calls described suicide attempts or self-harm, including overdoses and hangings. Six others involved allegations of sexual abuse—including at least one case logged as “staff on detainee.”
WIRED spoke with immigration attorneys, local migrant advocates, national policy experts, and individuals who have been recently detained or have family currently in ICE custody. Their accounts echoed the data: a system overwhelmed, and at times, seemingly indifferent to medical crises.
https://www.wired.com/story/ice-detention-center-911-emergencies/
A group of Democrats visited the south Florida newly opened site:
As lawmakers, we have both the legal right and moral responsibility to inspect this site, demand answers, and expose this abuse before it becomes the national blueprint,” the legislators said in a joint statement ahead of the visit.
Federal agencies signaled their opposition Thursday to a lawsuit brought by environmental groups seeking to halt operations at the detention center. Though Trump applauded the center during an official tour earlier this week, the filing on behalf of the Department of Homeland Security seemed to try to distance his administration from the facility, and said no federal money to date has been spent on it.
“DHS has not implemented, authorized, directed, or funded Florida’s temporary detention center. Florida is constructing and operating the facility using state funds on state lands under state emergency authority and a preexisting general delegation of federal authority to implement immigration functions,” the U.S. filing says.
Human rights advocates and Native American tribes have also protested against the center, contending it is a threat to the fragile Everglades system, would be cruel to detainees because of heat and mosquitoes, and is on land the tribes consider sacred.
It’s also located at a place prone to frequent heavy rains, which caused some flooding in the tents Tuesday during a visit by President Donald Trump to mark its opening. State officials say the complex can withstand a Category 2 hurricane, which packs winds of between 96 and 110 mph (154 and 177 kph), and that contractors worked overnight to shore up areas where flooding occurred.
The world is watching.
July 17th 2025
The United States has deported five individuals from Vietnam, Jamaica, Cuba, Yemen and Laos to Eswatini, a small southern African nation governed by a king who still holds absolute power.
This move marks Eswatini as the latest country to accept third-country deportees from the US. Authorities in Eswatini state the men are being held in correctional facilities pending their eventual repatriation to their native countries………
The country was previously known as Swaziland but changed to Eswatini in 2018 after the king announced it should revert to its traditional name in the Swazi language. It was Swaziland when it was under British colonial rule, which ended in 1968.
Using Africa as a dumping ground for ICE deportees, this from CNN:
Ken Opalo, an associate professor at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service in Washington, DC, said African nations are being pushed by the Trump administration “into doing egregious things such as accepting migrants from random countries or giving them (the US) their mineral wealth in ambiguous deals that don’t make much sense.”
Someone on Substack said the other day that he had been visiting the site of Auschwitz in Poland. A person showed him a copy of a planning permission document for the building ahead of them. It was a waste water treatment plant. It had been the last thing to be built, although the Jews and other herded German prisoners had already arrived in this miserable place. The gas chambers awaited them, but their end was delayed as bureaucrats had not got around to the planning permission stage for the processing of their bodies. Once the plant was built, the German SS carried out their horrific processing.
What happened to ‘Never Again?’
ICE Lawyers Are Hiding Their Names in Immigration Court
ICE attorneys fighting to deport immigrants are able to obscure their identities — no masks required.
July 15 2025, 9:18 a.m.
Reported by The Intercept
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